v5.10 Patch Notes

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Save The World

Happy Birthday Fortnite Fans!

Celebrate #Fortnite1st with friends. Find birthday cake throughout the world and earn special cosmetics by completing challenges and quests in-game.

Playground is back and better than before. Challenge your friends to a duel and build incredible structures on your own private island. Wield the new Legendary weapon in Battle Royale, the Compact SMG.

The Save the World storyline continues in the Canny Valley campaign. Get in-game and complete the Fortnite Birthday questline to unlock a special birthday reward!

#Fortnite1st Birthday
We’ve got a birthday party planned for #Fortnite1st and you’re invited! Eat cake, party and bring your friends. Each Birthday Challenge you complete unlocks a slice of the birthday cosmetic set.

Playground LTM (Battle Royale)
Playground mode is back on Wednesday, July 25! New team select options let you and your squad set up team battles for practice and training.

Canny Valley (Save the World)
Adventure into the desert of Canny Valley and explore Thunder Route 99... Immerse yourself in the story, uncover its secrets, and explore the new Arid Biome with your friends.

Save the World Celebration
Celebrate #Fortnite1st with cake, loot, and a special in-game questline. Complete the questline to unlock Birthday Brigade Ramirez. While you’re partying, find and eat birthday cakes to earn event tickets which can be spent on the limited time Birthday Llama.

General

New default keybindings for new players.

All keyboard layouts will continue to default to the QWERTY bindings for new players or those who reset their back to default.

Changed countdown timers to display more useful information

Shows hours left instead of days when under 72 hours.

Shows hours:minutes: seconds left when below 13 hours.

Changed the background of the loading screen bullet points area to be partially translucent.

Removed the “static noise” when switching tabs.

The “Restore” button has been removed from the settings screen. Also, the “Reset Defaults” button has been renamed to “Reset”.

Leaving the settings screen before applying changes will give the option to apply changes and exit or discard changes and exit.

Double clicks now register as two clicks on a button, allowing for faster navigation through Next/Previous type buttons

Bug Fixes

Items on the ground will properly have their stack counts updated if the stack size changes while the player is currently looking at them.

Fixed a frame delay on some text layouts, which would cause large blocks of text to reflow their wrapping one frame after seeing them.

Corrected text shadows that were appearing incorrectly in certain areas of the UI.

Known Issues

Wanting to track the top community issues? Head over to our Fortnite | Community Issues Trello board here.

Battle Royale

Birthday Event

You can now find birthday cakes placed around the map with consumable slices next to them. Enjoy those tasty treats!

Cake slices give +5 health and +5 shield instantly when consumed.

Complete three birthday event challenges to unlock a new emote, spray, and Backbling.

The Battlebus and Supply Drops have been decorated to celebrate #Fortnite1st.

Limited Time Mode: Playground

Summary
Playground is a low-pressure environment where friends can let their creativity run wild. Build massive structures. Practice with the weapons and items. Fight against your friends. This mode returns with improvements for a limited time on Wednesday, July 25. Have fun!

What’s New?

Players can now switch teams in-game. Join the same team to work together creatively, join separate teams to practice fighting each other!

Note: Voice chat will remain on across all teams, future iterations of the mode will offer more customization.

Aim assist will work when using a gamepad against players on an opposing team.

Weapon fire audio no longer cuts out when low on ammo for some weapons.

UI

Adjusted lobby nameplate arrangement to better account for long player names.

Added the ability to combine stackable items in player inventory if the stack sizes aren't already capped.

The Game Mode Select screen now sorts in the following order from left to right:

Solo, Duo, Squads

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue preventing players to select nothing as an Outfit and Backbling.

Removed the ‘Save and Exit’ option for items without variants.

Double tap the accept hotkey/button to confirm your selection.

Fixed an issue in the locker where the shuffle icon for randomized outfits was drawn slightly differently to other shuffle icons.

Removed an error message when trying to purchase the Battle Bundle while at tier 76 or above.

The correct actions are now shown on the HUD when you get into a Shopping Cart for the first time after being in an All Terrain Kart (ATK).

Art + Animation

Bug Fixes

Prevented sprays from affecting the eyes of the Rainbow Smash pickaxe.

The Toilet Paper contrail animations now appear correctly.

Replay System

Changed the icon when a player has been downed to an exclamation mark.

Bug Fixes

Battle Bus positioning now appears correctly in replays.

Fixed an issue with focus distance when changing cameras in replays.

Fixed issues with drone cameras when viewing players in vehicles during replays.

Fixed an issue where the camera controls would not display when toggling the HUD visibility.

Mobile

Downloading patches will now continue when you switch to a different app. When the download has completed, you’ll receive a notification.

Fire mode selection now has preview videos to better illustrate the functionality.

Added new placeable individual quick bar buttons to the HUD layout tool. Can be set to either locked Combat, locked Build, or Automatic mode to switch based on the player’s currently selected mode.

Tapping a currently selected build item from the quick bar will now build the item.

Bug Fixes

Fixed texture streaming issues with the battle bus.

Audible pops will no longer occur on iOS during loading screens and gameplay.

Save The World

Missions + Systems

New Canny Valley Campaign Quests are now available:

These new quests continue the storyline into Canny Valley and will appear on the quest map.

All players with access to Canny Valley and Twine Peaks will be able to complete this new storyline.

Storm Shield Defense and Launch the Rocket quests are unchanged and are still required to unlock new difficulties within Canny Valley.

You can now advance directly from one Storm Shield Defense to the next, without doing every story quest in between.

The storyline includes new quests that ask you to complete the old Storm Shield Defense quests. These will give retroactive credit if the Storm Shield Defense has already been completed.

Old Canny Valley quests are still present and have been converted into a series of optional side quests.

Dupe Prevention added to ALL Llamas!

After the Llama has determined the rarity and type of drop (IE - an Epic shotgun, a Legendary event hero, etc) it will select an item from that category that is not already in your inventory or Collection Book.

This change applies to Epic, Legendary and Mythic schematics and heroes.

Quest progression changes for Twine Peaks:

You can now advance directly from one Storm Shield Defense to the next, unlocking new areas without doing the quests in between.

New quests have been inserted into the Twine Peaks main questline that require completion of the Storm Shield Defenses and give retroactive credit.

Missions in Canny Valley and Twine Peaks have new Required Power Ratings:

Required Homebase Power

Recommended Mission Power Rating

28

46

34

52

40

58

46

64

52

70

58

76

64

82

70

88

76

94

82

100

The leader of your party must be at or above the Required Power Rating before your party can join a Mission of the listed recommended Power Rating.

This requirement applies to Mission Alerts as well as normal missions. It does not apply to Storm Shield Defenses.

New Fortnite Birthday quests!

Find and eat Birthday Cakes to earn event tickets.

Eliminate Cake Sploders to earn a Birthday Hero.

New Mission Control

We’ve begun implementing a new system for mission activation and voting. For now, we've added it to Retrieve the Data and Ride the Lightning missions. This new system replaces the Difficulty Pylon in the world and allows for both mission start and difficulty increase at the mission location.

In games with more than one player, increasing difficulty requires a majority vote.

In Ride the Lightning games with more than one player, starting the mission before the mission ready timer has expired also requires a majority vote. The default time for mission ready is currently set to 10 minutes.

Ride the Lightning mission will now show the storm direction on locating Lars's van instead of on depositing BluGlo.

Heroes

Birthday Brigade Ramirez, Legendary variant of Sergeant, is available from the limited-time birthday quest.

New Mythic Constructor: Steel Wool Syd, has been added to the Act 1 Canny Valley questline.

The following heroes can now be recycled or collected, and consume inventory space:

Rabbit Raider Jonesy

Wukong

Chromium Ramirez

Diecast Jonesy

Raven

8-Bit Demo

Snuggle Specialist Sarah

Shamrock Reclaimer

Archaeolo-Jess

Note that all players will receive 25 free inventory spaces as a free Birthday gift, so this change should not cause overflow.

Bug Fixes

Fixed the following tooltips, using incorrect values:

Base M.D. now heals for the correct amount.

The Base M.D. tooltip has been corrected to show "The Constructor's BASE regenerates 30 health every 3 seconds while allies are inside."

The Ain't Done Yet tooltip has been corrected to show “Increases the duration of Goin' Commando's active effect by 5 seconds.”

The Combatants Might tooltip has been corrected to show “Reduces energy cost of War Cry to 20.”

The Phase shield tooltip has been corrected to show “Phase Shift forces the shield to regenerate for 2 seconds.”

The Tail of the Dragon tooltip has been corrected to show "Dragon Slash leaves a persistent trail of energy, damaging for 12% of Dragon Slash damage, every 0.5 seconds, and slowing enemies by 30% caught within the tail for 3 seconds."

The tooltip for Corrosive Stars has been corrected to show "Throwing Stars Afflict their targets, doing 25% of Throwing Stars damage every second, for 6 seconds."

The tooltip for Nice and Slow has been corrected to show "Kinetic Overload applies a 40% slow to affected targets, reducing their movement and attack speed for 5 seconds."

The trigger radius for the Constructor Supercharged Plasma perk has been corrected.

Beetle Jess' stats now match the base Ranger subclass.

Enemies

New Zapper Husk enemy added!

The Zapper Husk is a ranged attack enemy who fires a single, moderately powered beam at players.

Damage and health for this husk put it midway between the Pitcher and the Blaster in difficulty.

The Zapper Husk will be able to spawn with elemental modifiers.

Weapons + Items

Be sure to check the Store daily. You never know what may rotate in!

Birthday Llama

Awards past event items from Llamas and Event Store, but not from Quest Rewards.

Collection book pages have been added for these items based on which event they originally were available.

Cost: 1,000 Road Trip tickets.

Many freebies and special offers will appear in the Loot tab for the duration of the Birthday event.

Reduced Defender XP leveling costs by 50%.

Reduced the evolution cost of Defenders by 50%.

Upgrade Llamas are now limited to 50 quantity per day.

We’ve reduced the amount of Nuts & Bolts and Mineral Powder used on a variety of traps: